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On 7/4/2025 11:44 PM, c186282 wrote:
On 7/5/25 1:32 AM, Doctor Fill wrote:
Typical of "legacy media" / "mainstream media", AP does the usual spin
of painting border enforcement as somehow vaguely "eviL" and
malevolent. Invaders, drug smugglers, and terrorists are all described
as "migrants" while anti-white, anti-American organizations such as
the ACLU are spoken of as if they were angels and saints.
https://apnews.com/article/border-military-trump-national-defense-
area-89f046e09809fe5b5071c6b9e1f48da9
COLUMBUS, N.M. (AP) — Orange no-entry signs posted by the U.S.
military in English and Spanish dot the New Mexico desert, where a
border wall cuts past onion fields and parched ranches with tufts of
tall grass growing amidst wiry brush and yucca trees.
The Army has posted thousands of the warnings in New Mexico and
western Texas, declaring a “restricted area by authority of the
commander.” It’s part of a major shift that has thrust the military
into border enforcement with Mexico like never before.
The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of
nearby military bases, empowering U.S. troops to detain people who
enter the country illegally and sidestep a law prohibiting military
involvement in civilian law enforcement. It is done under the
authority of the national emergency on the border declared by
President Donald Trump on his first day in office.
U.S. authorities say the zones are needed to close gaps in border
enforcement and help in the wider fight against human smuggling
networks and brutal drug cartels.
The militarization is being challenged in court, and has been
criticized by civil rights advocates, humanitarian aid groups and
outdoor enthusiasts who object to being blocked from public lands
while troops have free rein.
Abbey Carpenter, a leader of a search-and-rescue group for missing
migrants, said public access is being denied across sweltering
stretches of desert where migrant deaths have surged.
“Maybe there are more deaths, but we don’t know,” she said.
Military expansion
Two militarized zones form a buffer along 230 miles (370 kilometers)
of border, from Fort Hancock, Texas, through El Paso and westward
across vast New Mexico ranchlands.
The Defense Department added an additional 250-mile (400-kilometer)
zone last week in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and plans another near
Yuma, Arizona. Combined, the zones will cover nearly one-third of the
U.S. border with Mexico.
They are patrolled by at least 7,600 members of the armed forces,
vastly expanding the U.S. government presence on the border.
Reaction to the military buffer has been mixed among residents of New
Mexico’s rural Luna County, where a strong culture of individual
liberty is tempered by the desire to squelch networks bringing
migrants and contraband across the border.
“We as a family have always been very supportive of the mission, and
very supportive of border security,” said James Johnson, a fourth-
generation farmer overseeing seasonal laborers as they filled giant
plastic crates with onions, earning $22 per container.
Military deployments under prior presidents put “eyes and ears” on the >> border, Johnson said. This version is “trying to give some teeth.”
But some hunters and hikers fear they’re being locked out of a rugged
and cherished landscape.
Tensions run high over management of federal public lands and wildlife
at a Luna County Commission meeting in Deming, N.M., on June 12, 2025.
(AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
Tensions run high over management of federal public lands and wildlife
at a Luna County Commission meeting in Deming, N.M., on June 12, 2025.
(AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
“I don’t want to go down there with my hunting rifle and all of a
sudden somebody rolls up on me and says that I’m in a military zone,”
said Ray Trejo, a coordinator for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation
and a Luna County commissioner. “I don’t know if these folks have been >> taught to deescalate situations.”
A former public school teacher of English as a second language, Trejo
said military trespassing charges seem inhumane in an economy built on
immigrant farm labor.
“If the Army, Border Patrol, law enforcement in general are detaining
people for reasons of transporting, of human smuggling, I don’t have a
problem,” he said. “But people are coming into our country to work,
stepping now all of a sudden into a military zone, and they have no
idea.”
Nicole Wieman, an Army command spokesperson, said the Army is
negotiating possible public access for recreation and hunting, and
will honor private rights to grazing and mining.
Increased punishment
More than 1,400 migrants have been charged with trespassing on
military territory, facing a possible 18-month prison sentence for a
first offense. That’s on top of an illegal entry charge that brings up
to six months in custody. After that, most are turned over to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection for likely deportation. There have been
no apparent arrests of U.S. citizens.
A sign warns against unauthorized entry into a militarized zone along
the southern U.S. border in New Mexico on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/
Morgan Lee)
A sign warns against unauthorized entry into a militarized zone along
the southern U.S. border in New Mexico on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/
Morgan Lee)
At a federal courthouse in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on the banks of the
Upper Rio Grande, migrants in drab county jail jumpsuits and chains
filed before a magistrate judge on a recent weekday.
A 29-year-old Guatemalan woman struggled to understand instructions
through a Spanish interpreter as she pleaded guilty to illegal entry.
A judge set aside military trespassing charges for lack of evidence,
but sentenced her to two weeks in jail before being transferred for
likely deportation.
“She sells pottery, she’s a very simple woman with a sixth-grade
education,” a public defense attorney told the judge. “She told me
she’s going back and she’s going to stay there.”
Border crossings
Border Patrol arrests along the southern border this year have dropped
to the lowest level in six decades, including a 30% decrease in June
from the prior month as attempted crossings dwindle. On June 28, the
Border Patrol made only 137 arrests, a stark contrast with late 2023,
when arrests topped 10,000 on the busiest days.
The first militarized zones, introduced in April and May, extend west
of El Paso past factories and cattle yards to partially encircle the
New Mexico border village of Columbus, and its 1,450 residents. It was
here that Mexican revolutionary forces led by Pancho Villa crossed
into the U.S. in a deadly 1916 raid.
Seasonal laborers harvest onions on a privately owned ranch along the
southern U.S. border in an unincorporated area 15 miles west of
Columbus, N.M., on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
Seasonal laborers harvest onions on a privately owned ranch along the
southern U.S. border in an unincorporated area 15 miles west of
Columbus, N.M., on June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
These days, a port of entry at Columbus is where hundreds of children
with U.S. citizenship cross daily from a bedroom community in Mexico
to board public school buses and attend classes nearby.
Columbus Mayor Philip Skinner, a Republican, says he’s seen the
occasional military vehicle but no evidence of disruption in an area
where illegal crossings have been rare.
“We’re kind of not tuned in to this national politics,” Skinner said. >>
Oversight is divided between U.S. Army commands in Fort Bliss, Texas,
and Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The militarized zones sidestep the Posse
Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that prohibits the military from conducting
civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil.
Russell Johnson, a rancher and former Border Patrol agent, said he
welcomes the new militarized zone where his ranch borders Mexico on
land leased from the Bureau of Land Management.
“We have seen absolutely almost everything imaginable that can happen
on the border, and most of it’s bad,” he said, recalling off-road
vehicle chases on his ranch and lifeless bodies recovered by Border
Patrol.
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly
designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern
U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
A military transport and surveillance vehicle is parked in a newly
designated national defense area on June 11, 2025, along the southern
U.S. border in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
In late April, he said, five armored military vehicles spent several
days at a gap in the border wall, where construction was suspended at
the outset of the Biden presidency. But, he said, he hasn’t seen much
of the military in recent weeks.
“The only thing that’s really changed is the little extra signage,” he >> said. “We’re not seeing the military presence out here like we kind of >> anticipated.”
Court challenges
Federal public defenders have challenged the military’s new oversight
of public land in New Mexico, seizing on the arrest of a Mexican man
for trespassing through remote terrain to test the legal waters.
They decried the designation of a new military zone without
congressional authorization “for the sole purpose of enabling military
action on American soil” as “a matter of staggering and unpreceded
political significance.” A judge has not ruled on the issue.
The Joe/K "No Border" policy has to be aggressively
reversed immediately. It won't always 'look good',
but it HAS to be done.
Agreed.
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